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sinistrous, a.|ˈsɪnɪstrəs|
Also 6 sinistrus, -terous, sinystrous.
[f. the stem of L. sinister sinister a. + -ous.
The stressing siˈnistrous appears occasionally in verse, and is given by Smart (1836) as proper to sense 5.]
I.
†1. Erroneous, perverse, heretical. Obs.
1560Whitehorne tr. Machiavelli's Arte Warre 1 b, There hath growen these sinisterous opinions, which maketh men to hate the warlike seruice. 1581J. Hamilton in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 76 Euerie curious heid..mycht..apply thame to ane peruerse and sinistrous sense. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 194 They approue the apprehension of such a sinistrous opinion with these arguments.
†2. Malicious, unfair, prejudiced. Obs.
1593in Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 400 The sinistrous informations of ill-disposed people. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 2 Concerning sinistrous censures. 1693R. Fleming Disc. Earthquakes 14 How sad a Token is it, when such are not only rejected, but have a sinistrous and false Application made of the same. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 176 ⁋8 The sinistrous interpretations or absurd remarks of haste and ignorance.
†3. Underhand; dishonest; corrupt. Obs.
1600W. Clarke in Archpr. Controv. (Camden) I. 168 These moste indirecte and sinisterous procedinges. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. A 2, A pitty it is to see the crooked and sinistrous courses of the greattest part. 1689Trial Pritchard v. Papillon 34 Embark'd in sinistrous and unjustifiable ways. 1717Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 327 The coming in by this door..is..a proof of..sinistrous designs in entering upon the holy office of the ministry.
4. Betokening or attended with misfortune or disaster; ill-omened, inauspicious, unlucky; baleful, malign, etc.
a1575tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden, No. 36) 177 Aswaldus..likewise with sinistrus fortune obteined the regall sceptre. 1598Yong Diana 148 Those fauourable or sinistrous successes of Fortune. 1607Earl Stirling J. Cæsar iv. ii, Which to my soule sinistrous signes impart. 1633Hart Diet of Diseased iii. v. 244 Some have observed some sinistrous accident to have insued the use of this remedy. 1733Budgell Bee I. 498 Nor Thunder-Crack Sinistrous roar'd Presage. 1775Johnson Journ. Hebrides Wks. 1825 IX. 126 The arrival of a beggar on an island is accounted a sinistrous event. 1832Southey in Q. Rev. XLVIII. 277 An English traveller noticed it, in his journal, as a sinistrous omen. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 1026 Not one grace Outspread before you but is registered In that sinistrous coil.
II.
†5. Of or pertaining to, situated on, the left hand or side. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. ii. 182 The heart doth seem to incline unto the left,..because its sinistrous gravity is drawne that way. Ibid. 191 The distance of the North and Southerne pole..is equall unto the space between the East and West, accounted the dextrous and sinistrous parts thereof. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 221 The Contrarieties and Conjugations of things, such as..Dextrous and Sinistrous, Eaven and Odd, and the like.
†6. fig. Left-handed; slow. Obs.—1
1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. xx, Many, who are sinistrous unto Good Actions, are Ambi-dexterous unto bad.
7. Of flat-fishes: = sinistral a. 7.
1803Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. 318 Sinistrous Flounder, Pleuronectes Passer... Brown Flounder, with eyes toward the left. |